The living fossil concept: reply to Turner
Despite the iconic roles of coelacanths, cycads, tadpole shrimps, and tuataras as taxa that demonstrate a pattern of morphological stability over geological time, their status as living fossils is contested. We responded to these controversies with a recommendation to rethink the function of the liv...
Main Authors: | Lidgard, S. (Author), Love, A.C (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
2021
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Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
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